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6” Cooke & Sons refracting telescope

Social Science & Culture

Award profile: Putting a historic telescope back into focus

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Through the course of a project spanning nine years, two Ingenium conservators — Tony Missio and David Elliott — had the chance to work on the complete restoration and preservation of the 6” Cooke & Sons refracting telescope, bought by the Meteorological Service of Canada in 1882. The telescope was in service for over 100 years; it was donated to the museum by its last owner, the University of Toronto, in 1984. The telescope was dismantled and brought to the national collection storage. On

Rediscovering the Dudley bobsled

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

By William Knight and Bruce Dudley Some museum artifacts are mysterious. They lack provenance, or history, so we don’t know who made or used them, or why. Occasionally, however, objects acquire stories. Such is the case with a bobsled exhibited in Artifact Alley in the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. The bobsled, it turns out, has a rich history that connects winter fun, Ottawa’s transportation history, and the Great Depression—and memories of a beloved father. As lead curator of

Envelope sent to John Horn from Samuel Morse in 1871. It appears between pages 470-71 in Horn’s volume of The Telegraph in America.

Social Science & Culture

Enhanced Reading: John Horn’s Volume of The Telegraph in America, 1879

Guest writer, McGill University

Books are tools that organize knowledge. When readers access that knowledge, they engage a reading experience.

Main camera used by Karsh

Lights! Camera! Personality! The Karsh of Ottawa Collection Profile

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

In 1997 Jerry Fielder contacted the then-director of the Collection and Research Division of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Geoff Rider, with an offer of a donation. Each year the Museum receives several hundred offers from across Canada, yet Geoff immediately recognized that this was not an average proposal. Since 1979 Jerry had been a curator and an assistant to prominent Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh.

The Petrovic Collection

Social Science & Culture

Award profile: Finding cultural connections through our shared mathematical heritage

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Petrovic Collection at the Canada Science and Technology Museum is a collection of over 130 mathematical instruments from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. These instruments came to the museum in 1980 from Dr. George Petrovic, a Serbian-born architect who collected them in order to document the connections between mathematical practice and architecture in the eastern Mediterranean regions, as well as countries that were once part of the Ottoman Empire. The collection is now at the centre

Finding a place where passion takes flight

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Terrie Pereira – who talks about her volunteer work with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in her own words. By Terrie Pereira I started volunteering with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in the summer of 2013. Around the same time, I was taking up flying lessons again at the Rockliffe Flying Club, after taking a

Postcard of the Banff Springs Hotel, featuring the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Pacific Railway Co.

The Canadian Railway Hotels

Kristy von Moos

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This text has been adapted from the Picturing the Past website, developed by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2006. In addition to building the rail system across the country, Canada’s two national railway companies (Canadian National Railways and the Canadian Pacific Railway) built a string of grand hotels in the major cities and resort areas of the nation.

An electric range

From the Stove to the Electric Range: The Range Collection

Louise Trottier

The Ingenium’s collection of ranges, includes a variety of appliances — fireboxes, table stoves, cooking plates, buffet stoves — and illustrates the main innovations made to these electric household cooking appliances between 1900 and 2000.

Patrick Legault

Earth & Environment

Where everybody knows your name

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Patrick Legault – a volunteer with the Canada Science and Technology Museum. When Patrick Legault began volunteering with the artifact handlers at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2014, he was immediately struck by the strong sense of team spirit amongst the staff.

Giving wings to Canada’s aviation stories

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In honour of National Volunteer Week – April 15 to 21 – Ingenium is putting the spotlight on just a few of its invaluable volunteers. In today’s profile, the Channel highlights Bill Upton – a volunteer with the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. As a young boy in the 1960s, Bill Upton loved aviation so much that he spent his spare time writing letters to Canadian aviation manufacturers. “I would write letters multiple times a month, asking for photographs or lithographs of their products,”

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